Police say Jeannie Peabody called police to report that a white van came to her home around 7 a.m. and her husband, Mark Peabody, went outside to talk to the occupant. She told police that she heard gunshots, went into her basement and then to a neighbor's to call 911. She said she had not seen her husband since.

Police responded with personnel and equipment including a tactical unit and helicopter. Slack Street, where the shooting occurred, was blocked off for a time.

Police say they later found 50-year-old Mark Peabody dead outside and 59-year-old John Jackson of Amherst, N.H., dead inside the home.

Police say Jeannie Peabody had been having disagreements with Jackson over child support payments.

TWO MEN ARE DEAD IN AN APPARENT MURDER-SUICIDE. GOOD EVENING -- I'M STEPHANIE GORIN. I'M GEORGE MALLET. TONIGHT -- A WOMAN'S HUSBAND AND EX-HUSBAND ARE BOTH DEAD... AFTER GUNSHOTS RANG OUT IN PEACHAM. WE'VE BEEN FOLLOWING THIS STORY ALL DAY... NEWSCHANNEL 5'S DAVID CHARNS IS LIVE IN THE NEWSROOM WITH NEW DETAILS. TRANS STATE POLICE SAY THIS WOMAN'S EX- HUSBAND RENTED A CAR IN SAINT JOHNSBURY ... AND THEN DROVE IT TO THIS PEACHAM HOME -- INVESTIGATORS SAY THE FORMER COUPLE WAS IN AN ONGOING DISAGREEMENT. TONIGHT -- SHE'S ALIVE -- AND TALKING TO POLICE-- AS THEY TRY TO PIECE TOGETHER THIS APPARENT MURDER-SUICIDE. LT. BOB CUSHING STATE POLICE we all can only imagine how she feels VERMONT STATE POLICE -- PUT TOGETHER A TIMELINE OF WHAT THEY THINK HAPPENED AT 24-94 SLACK STREET IN PEACHAM. nat - car INVESTIGATORS SAY 59-YEAR-OLD JOHN JACKSON RENTED AN S-U-V IN SAINT JOHNSBURY. WEDNESDAY MORNING -- POLICE SAY HE DROVE IT TO THE HOME OF IS EX- WIFE -- 60-YEAR- OLD JEANNIE PEABODY. JEANNIE'S HUSBAND -- MARK -- WENT OUTSIDE -- AND SOMEONE FIRED A GUN. LT. BOB CUSHING STATE POLICE she said she heard three. There may have been more JEANNIE HID IN HER BASEMENT -- LT. BOB CUSHING STATE POLICE she could hear someone enter the house hearing footsteps walking above her, retreated to her neighbors where she called 911 ALAN CHANDLER PEACHAM my cousins came and got me and said we all need to go to the house -- because somebody's been shot POLICE BROUGHT IN OFFICERS AND A HELICOPTER TO SEARCH THE CRIME SCENE -- FORCING PEOPLE LIKE ALAN CHANDLER TO TAKE COVER.. UNTIL THE ALL CLEAR. nat pop BY MID-DAY... INVESTIGATORS CONFIRMED MARK PEABODY'S BODY WAS FOUND NEAR THE PARKED S-U-V. POLICE SAY A BODY BELIEVED TO BE THAT OF JOHN JACKSON -- WAS INSIDE THE HOME. BOTH DIED FROM GUNSHOT WOUNDS... BUT POLICE AREN'T SAYING WHO FIRED THE GUN -- INVESTIGATORS HAVE SINCE LEARNED JEANNIE HAD AN ONGOING DISAGREEMENT WITH HER EX. NOW THE QUESTION ON EVERYONE'S MINDS IS -- HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN. ALAN CHANDLER PEACHAM how did he get to that point? What drove him to do that? AGAIN -- POLICE HAVE NOT SAID WHO FIRED THE GUN. THE BOMB SQUAD WAS CALLED IN TO CHECK OUT A SUSPICIOUS PACKAGE INSIDE THAT S-U-V. THE BODY BELIEVED TO BE JACKSON'S... IS BEING EXAMINED FOR IDENTIFICATION. LIVE IN THE NEWSROOM TONIGHT, I'M DAVID CHARNS, NEWSCHANNEL 5 NIGHTCAST.